CYRIL Dabydeen’s book, ‘How Far Do We Go?’ has won The Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for best short fiction.

Dabydeen’s recent books include ‘My Undiscovered Country’ (Mosaic Press), ‘God’s Spider/poetry’ (Peepal Tree Press, UK) and ‘My Multi-Ethnic Friends and Other Stories’ (Guernica Editions, Toronto). Previous books include ‘Jogging in Havana’ (1992), ‘Black Jesus and Other Stories’ (1996), ‘Berbice Crossing’ (1997), ‘My Brahmin Days’ (2000), ‘North of the Equator’ (2001), ‘Play a Song Somebody: New and Selected Short Stories’ (2003), ‘Imaginary Origins: New and Selected Poems’ (2005),and the novel ‘Drums of My Flesh’ (2007) won the Guyana Prize for best novel.

According to a release, the author has published in over 60 literary magazines and anthologies, eg Poetry/Chicago, The Critical Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Canadian Literature, and in the Oxford, Penguin, and Heinemann Books of Caribbean Poetry and Short Stories.

Dabydeen has also edited ‘Beyond Sangre Grande: Caribbean Writing Today’ (Mawenzi House, Toronto) and taught Creative Writing at the University of Ottawa for many years – a city where he was the official Poet Laureate (1984-87).

He has also been invited to be a guest writer/and lead a workshop at the International Short Story in English Conference (biennial) to be held at the University of Calabria, Italy, June 2020.